Web Designer / Developer usually embed Google Maps using iFrame in most websites. But, page scrolling stuck when user use mouse scroll in Google map area, and now it is working as Map zoom in/out. So, we always wonder that, "is there a way to disable the zoom via mouse scroll wheel on all of them using css or JavaScript?" Answer is "Yes", and here is powerful CSS's property - POINTER-EVENTS. For this, I am wrapping the Google map's iframe in a DIV. Default behavior of mouse in this DIV has been fixed to "pointer-events: none". It will terminate the zoom-in…

Today, I am going to brief about the working of - "Request a Desktop Site" & "Switch from a Mobile Site" or, Choose “Request Desktop Site” link and let the current webpage reload to the full desktop version of that site. I mean to say that, i am sharing a trick about disabling the responsiveness of webpage in mobile browser. As we know, there are several mobile Operating Systems and that's why each browser has it's own implementation of the viewport meta tag according to respected OS. Different combinations will work on different browsers & OS. Android OS: Android : viewport…

Just to make it easier to understand the article, this is what Facebook does when you open a photo, for example. The url bar changes to point DIRECTLY to that photo, so you can share the URL without losing where you are in the site. Remember sites based on framing last decade? You could only get the homepage url, because only internal frames were changing. And that was terrible. How to Update Address Bar with New URL without reloading the webpage? Is there any way, I can modify the URL of the current page without reloading the page? I would…

The cursor property specifies the type of cursor to be displayed when pointing on an element. Some CSS properties are animatable, meaning that they can be used in animations and transitions. Animatable properties can change gradually from one value to another, like size, numbers, percentage and color. Now, when you'd like to customize a cursor, and CSS lets you do it quite easily! Click here for a list of the cursor styles supported by the CSS W3C recommendations. Rollover on the above image and see the CSS custom Cursor The CSS The cursor CSS property accepts a series of cursors, and using…

Here is a pure CSS experimental work to create a aquarium. Image / javascript hasn't been used for aquarium or it's animation. I have used jQuery only for random air-bubbles. All these animation is created by Pure CSS. Some times ago, I had written a article about "Animated bubbles upwards continuously with pure CSS". You can also use this trick for air-bubbles. For Creating Aquarium's water, sand, rocks and plants few lines of HTML required. The HTML <div class="bubbles"></div> <div class="ground"></div> <div class="rock_1"></div> <div class="rock_2"></div> <div class="rock_3"></div> <div class="rock_4"></div> <div class="rock_5"></div> <div class="rock_6"></div> <div class="rock_7"></div> <div class="plant_1_wrap"> <div class="plant_1"></div> <div…

Here is a pure CSS experimental work to create floating bubbles without using JavaScript. These animated bubbles are also with popping effect. All these animation is created by Pure CSS. For our little demo, we use a simple image for the conical flask and then create the bubbles entirely with markup and CSS. The HTML <div id="beaker"> <span class="bubble"> <span class="glow"> </span> </span> </div> With our bubbles all made, now we need them to act like bubbles. We could use JavaScript but that's no fun. Just use CSS! There are a few things we need to animate. The vertical positioning…

Today, We will play with some more interesting CSS style properties for HTML5 INPUT placeholder styling. Let's explore, how to style placeholder text within INPUT elements with some unique CSS code. In previous articles, we have already covered some beautiful CSS effects on INPUT and Input . What is Placeholder? The placeholder attribute specifies a short hint that describes the expected value of an input field ( a sample value or a short description of the expected format). The short hint is displayed in the input field before the user enters a value. The placeholder attribute works with the following input types: text, search, url, tel, email,…

I hope you have enjoyed my previous article about 3D Parallax effected webpage. Now, like previous year, on occasion of Christmas and winter Holidays, I thought to wish this festival by create a wonderful webpage greetings too. So, today I had created this Christmas greeting card using 3D Parallax effect with help of CSS3 and JavaScript. I hope you all will enjoy this holiday and my web-card too :) . Introduction - What is Parallax? Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two…

Parallax effect is a long-known and widely used animation effect. Lately, the parallax effect has become a wide-spread and quite a trend element in web design, often referred to as "parallax scrolling". Internet if full on many great examples of application of this effect in web design. As I planned to create a cool parallax animated background, my first goal was to write the shortest and simplest code to achieve maximum awesomeness! I’ll show you how I did it. In this tutorial, I’ll teach you the simplest parallax scrolling technique. Here, I am going to introduce you, a most flexible/responsive slider Parallaxfx_DG. It is…